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In this activity, learners explore how the power of the sun can be harnessed to heat and cool a building.

In this activity, learners explore how wind energy can be generated on both a large and small scale.

In this activity, learners explore how packaging engineers develop customized shipping and packaging containers to meet the needs of many different industries.

In this activity, learners investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating.

In this activity, learners will reuse plastic bags in an interesting way.

In this activity, learners explore how watermills have helped harness energy from water through the ages.

In this activity, learners of all ages will design a functional bird feeder using familiar, every day materials.

In this design challenge activity, learners explore the concept of biomimicry by using a natural organism's special features to design a new human object.

In this activity, learners construct a home-made journal with simple, everyday materials.

In this activity, learners explore how engineers design devices that can detect the presence of pollutants in the air.

In this activity, learners will see how UV light affects colors over time by making their own sunprint on construction paper.

In this activity, learners will engineer a roof using simple materials to protect a construction paper person from a rainstorm.

In this activity, learners explore how engineering has developed various means to remove impurities from water.

In this activity, learners are challenged to design, build and test a birdhouse that will stay cool in the sun.

In this outdoor activity, learners discover how the environment around a building affects the growth of plants.

In this activity, learners explore how engineers work to solve the challenges of a society, such as delivering safe drinking water.

In this activity, learners observe fly behavior and then build a flytrap.

In this activity, learners explore sensors and focus specifically on how to measure humidity using a sensor.

In this activity, learners explore how civil engineers solved the challenge of moving water via irrigation.

In this activity, learners will examine a variety of seeds, describe them, and determine how they are dispersed.